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* FalseReassurance: Commander Ecker is instructed to personally accompany the reconnaissance footage from Florida to the Pentagon so that General [=LeMay=] can personally ask him whether the Cubans shot at their planes while they performed their mission. Ecker, having already been warned by O'Donnell that answering with the straight truth that they ''were'' shot at will result in unavoidable escalation to all-out war, answers, "It was a cakewalk, sir," which is technically true insofar as the shots the Cubans fired only resulted in relatively cosmetic damage to their planes and both pilots returned unharmed.
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-->"The president has instructed me to pass along an order to you: You are not to get shot down."\\
"Uh, we'll do our best, sir."\\
"I don't think you understand me correctly. You are not to get shot down under any circumstances. Whatever happens up there, you were not shot at. Mechanical failures are fine, crashing into mountains, fine. But you and your men are not to be shot at, fired at, launched upon.... If you are fired upon, the President will be forced to attack the sites that fired on you. He doesn't want to have to do that. It's very important that he doesn't, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt or things could get very badly out of control.]]"
"Uh, we'll do our best, sir."\\
"I don't think you understand me correctly. You are not to get shot down under any circumstances. Whatever happens up there, you were not shot at. Mechanical failures are fine, crashing into mountains, fine. But you and your men are not to be shot at, fired at, launched upon.... If you are fired upon, the President will be forced to attack the sites that fired on you. He doesn't want to have to do that. It's very important that he doesn't, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt or things could get very badly out of control.]]"
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'''O'Donnell:''' I don't think you understand me correctly. You are not to get shot down under any circumstances. Whatever happens up there, you were not shot at. Mechanical failures are fine, crashing into mountains, fine. But you and your men are not to be shot at, fired at, launched upon.... If you are fired upon, the President will be forced to attack the sites that fired on you. He doesn't want to have to do that. It's very important that he doesn't, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt or things could get very badly out of control.
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** Speaking of the Joint Chiefs. Taylor is the chairman, but you'd swear that [=LeMay=] was the real leader, judging by how he's portrayed as a much more forceful personality. Tellingly, when Kennedy is conflicted between deciding on the quarantine or surgical airstrikes, he specifically wants [=LeMay=]'s input despite inviting all the Chiefs.
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** Speaking of the Joint Chiefs. Taylor is the chairman, but you'd swear that [=LeMay=] was the real leader, judging by how he's portrayed as a much more forceful personality. Tellingly, when Kennedy is conflicted between deciding on the quarantine or surgical airstrikes, he specifically wants [=LeMay=]'s input despite inviting all the Chiefs.Chiefs to brief him.
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** Speaking of the Joint Chiefs. Taylor is the chairman, but you'd swear that [=LeMay=] was the real leader, judging by how he's portrayed.
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** Speaking of the Joint Chiefs. Taylor is the chairman, but you'd swear that [=LeMay=] was the real leader, judging by how he's portrayed.portrayed as a much more forceful personality. Tellingly, when Kennedy is conflicted between deciding on the quarantine or surgical airstrikes, he specifically wants [=LeMay=]'s input despite inviting all the Chiefs.
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* CalmBeforeTheStorm: As October 28 draws to a close, war between the United States and Soviet Union appears imminent. US forces are on orders to invade on Monday and everyone, the administration, the military, are seemingly just waiting for it. Even the protesters outside the White House and Soviet embassy are just robotically marching back and forth with their signs but otherwise seem resigned to their fates.
-->'''Creator/WalterCronkite''': It almost seemed today as if time stood still; the shooting hadn't started yet, but there weren't any really encouraging signs that it could be avoided.
-->'''Creator/WalterCronkite''': It almost seemed today as if time stood still; the shooting hadn't started yet, but there weren't any really encouraging signs that it could be avoided.
